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Friday, 23 January 2004

Photographs of Mars - No highways, but there are suspected water-formed valleys


The ESA (European Space Agency) has published an early batch of unprecedentedly detailed stereo photographs of Mars, taken from the Mars Express probe, currently orbiting the 'red planet' at an altitude of 273km.
Other links for work currently going on relating to Mars exploration are here, and the ESA website has more of its high-resolution photographs.

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